Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Wes Cecil is a wonderful lecturer on humanist themes. I have never seen him do something so politically adjacent. Excellent work and something every young worker should watch and bear in mind.
tldr:
1. Capitalism strip mines culture just like any other scarce resource.
2. Culture includes personal values like hard work, group effort, and not whining.
3. As capitalism exploits those values to get maximal value from its workers, those values erode and the workers are exhausted.
4. Then capitalism moves on, leaving the wreckage, paying no externality fee.
5. And, needless to say, capitalism is not itself bound by such values, because it is understood that the iron laws of the market are all that operate for it.
The analogy for capitalism I would use is a strong acid. Strong acids have their place -- they are not by definition good or bad, they merely have uses and dangers based on context. So we control them and are very careful about not getting any on us.
tldr:
1. Capitalism strip mines culture just like any other scarce resource.
2. Culture includes personal values like hard work, group effort, and not whining.
3. As capitalism exploits those values to get maximal value from its workers, those values erode and the workers are exhausted.
4. Then capitalism moves on, leaving the wreckage, paying no externality fee.
5. And, needless to say, capitalism is not itself bound by such values, because it is understood that the iron laws of the market are all that operate for it.
The analogy for capitalism I would use is a strong acid. Strong acids have their place -- they are not by definition good or bad, they merely have uses and dangers based on context. So we control them and are very careful about not getting any on us.
